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On 24/09/2011, at 1:24, geoffrey levand wrote:
> The interface to the PS3 flash device is NOT like normal NOR/NAND =
flash interfaces.
> The interface to the PS3 FLASH is abstracted by the hypervisor and it =
looks like HDD to FreeBSD but has several logical units like SCSI =
devices. The flash device supports write, read and flush operation. =
Sector size is 512 byte. But it doesn't support any ATA or SCSI commands =
except flush.

>=20
I think you could use make_dev() etc.. although I haven't used it :)

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